Something is dirty somewhere. Could be a misconfigured port along the way, 
could be bad cabling, etc...

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com<mailto:br...@briandesmond.com>

c   - 312.731.3132

From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@hnncsb.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Metro Ethernet ?

Folks,

I am converting our network from point to point to MVLS/Metro Ethernet.

What I am noticing at some sites is that performance is worse that with the 
point to point circuit.  Ping times greatly increased, collisions, etc.  I've 
been working with my provider to get this resolved.  First they thought it was 
a speed mismatch issue, so the provider's equipment and my equipment were 
changed to the same setting (full 100).  That's not working and now we'll 
probably change it to full 10 (since the allocation is 5 Mbps anyway).  I can 
also do some rate shaping on my switches, but it's a PITA and I was hoping to 
avoid it.

Anyone else have these issues with conversion?  Some sites are fine, others are 
not.  All have same switches, model, firmware, config for trunk ports.

I haven't pulled out my bag o software to look at what's on the pipe, anyone 
have any that would be best for this scenario?  I have Praesser but I really 
need a site to site test/analysis tool.  I just downloaded Qcheck and will see 
if that does it.  I've also asked my provider to give me some statistics on 
traffic they see.

Recommendations and comments welcome.




Tom Miller
Engineer, Information Technology
Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board
757-788-0528

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